This week we have turned into authors! On Monday, we started to invent our own characters to share with others. We looked at our favourite story characters and then drew our own. To help us to describe our characters, we learned about adjectives. We played games on the smartboard and computer to identify the adjectives in sentences, we found the missing adjectives in sentences and we wrote our own sentences containing adjectives. Once we were amazing at using adjectives, we wrote some sentences to describe our characters in an interesting way.
 
 
On Wednesday, we started to explore the setting of a story. We know that this is where the story takes place. We worked with a partner to read different Biff, Chip & Kipper books and we told Miss Harrison where our story was set. Later on we looked at different story setting pictures and we were able to tell Miss Harrison stories that we knew that took place in each of the different settings. We are currently working very hard with our own story settings and drawing and writing about them. As part of our setting focus, we used Lego and building blocks to build different settings. Next week we are going to start planning our own books using our settings and characters!
In numeracy and maths this week, we have been using our addition and subtraction skills to add and subtract with money. We have also been using coins to pay the exact value for items. We used magnetic coins and toy coins to make different money amounts and played different money games on Education City. This week we have also been continuing to learn about fractions and using halves and quarters.
This week we were very lucky to have an Athletics session and a Better Movers Better Thinkers session. On Monday, Mr Stewart (who is a PE Officer for West Lothian) came to take us for gym. We looked at developing lots of movement skills whilst making our brains think! We practised throwing the ball up in the air, clapping and then catching the ball and lots of other different movements. We then put these movements together to make a sequence.
As part of our People Who Help Us learning focus, we had a visit from the Dogs Trust on Thursday afternoon. We learned how to look after dogs and what the Dogs Trust do to look after dogs in their care. Next week we will continue to learn about ways in which people in the community help us.
Thank you for reading our blog post. Have a fantastic weekend,
P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂
